Word: sheikdom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kuwaitis have had about the same difficulty adapting to elections as some of them have had in switching from camels to cars; the country has one of the world's highest traffic-accident rates. Last week, the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom, whose fabled oil brings it some $750,000,000 in annual royalties, held the second parliamentary election in its history. Everyone knew that Kuwait was ruled by Sheik Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 51, who became the Amir when his brother died a little over a year ago. Nevertheless, there was plenty of politicking for seats...
While Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz was getting the heave-ho in Iraq, the Middle East's tiny, oil-soaked sheikdom of Abu Dhabi was going through a similar-though less surprising-upheaval. Sheik Shakhbout bin Sultan, 61, who had been in power longer (since 1928) than any other Middle East ruler, was suddenly shipped off to nearby Bahrain Island one day last week, and his youngest brother, 46-year-old Sheik Zaid bin Sultan, became the sheikdom's new headman...
...jump suit for tussling with a would-be lover; slinky silk for all-out assaults; a peekaboo cape for evenings of casual intrigue. Ostensibly, Modesty is a retired criminal genius hired by the British government to save a shipment of diamonds en route to an oil-rich Middle Eastern sheikdom...
...year reign, Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag...
Royal Scandal. Nasser was dealt an even sharper blow in the Trucial States,* which lie on the Gulf side of the horn of Arabia. There, in the tiny, impoverished sheikdom of Sharja, where Britain has an R.A.F. base, Sheik Sakr bin Sultan al-Kasimi has long been the Gulf's only pro-Nasser ruler. When the Egyptian-dominated Arab League proposed a big aid program for the seven Trucial States last year, six of them turned it down at British nudging. Sheik Sakr, 39, on the other hand, joyfully accepted the offer and invited an Arab aid mission...